How Web Applications Are Attacked Through APIs

Happy Pi Day, everyone! As a technician, pi is a number that represents a constant. This constant reflects the ongoing cyberthreats that put enterprise assets at continuous risk as digital transformation and the resultant attack surface grow in parallel. Whether it’s a simple identity theft hack...

Imperva Suspends Operations in Russia and Belarus

We are heartbroken by the escalation of events in Ukraine, and the tragic loss of life, displacement of people, culture and history. The safety of our global team remains a priority, and we’re in constant communication with Impervians in Ukraine to ensure their well-being and that of their...

Imperva mitigated a series of massive ransom DDoS attacks

By Deeba Ahmed Imperva, a cyber security software and services company has thwarted a massive 2.5 million RPS requests per second… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Imperva mitigated a series of massive ransom DDoS attacks...

Imperva Thwarts 2.5 Million RPS Ransom DDoS Extortion Attacks

Cybersecurity company Imperva on Friday said it recently mitigated a ransom distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack targeting an unnamed website that peaked at 2.5 million requests per second RPS. "While ransom DDoS attacks are not new, they appear to be evolving and becoming more interesting...

Imperva Mitigates Ransom DDoS Attack Measuring 2.5 Million Requests per Second

We are only at the beginning of 2022 and it looks like it is going to be an interesting year for the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS landscape. We recently mitigated a ransom DDoS attack on a single website which reached a rate of 2.5 million requests per second Mrps. And while ransom DDoS...

Let’s Get Under the Hood of Imperva Snapshot

A stress-free guide for the prudent cloud operator With minimal setup, Imperva Snapshot enables you to immediately start your in-depth Amazon Web Services AWS RDS database assessment. With no prior training required, cloud operators can use this useful tool to pinpoint deficiencies in their...

Imperva is on Top of the World as it Announces New PoP in Bogotá

Imperva is on top of the world to announce the opening of our newest and highest data center yet in Bogotá, Colombia. This latest move represents our commitment as an organization to improve performance, security and connectivity for our customers in the Colombian market. In the very center of th...

CVE-2021-45468

Imperva Web Application Firewall WAF before 2021-12-23 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to use "Content-Encoding: gzip" to evade WAF security controls and send malicious HTTP POST requests to web servers behind the WAF...

CVE-2021-45468

Imperva Web Application Firewall WAF before 2021-12-23 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to use "Content-Encoding: gzip" to evade WAF security controls and send malicious HTTP POST requests to web servers behind the WAF...

CVE-2021-45468

Imperva Web Application Firewall WAF before 2021-12-23 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to use "Content-Encoding: gzip" to evade WAF security controls and send malicious HTTP POST requests to web servers behind the WAF...

CVE-2021-45468

CVE-2021-45468 affects Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) prior to 2021-12-23. The issue allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to bypass WAF protections by abusing Content-Encoding: gzip and sending malicious HTTP POST requests to backend servers behind the WAF. The risk is a bypass of sec...

CVE-2021-45468

Imperva Web Application Firewall WAF before 2021-12-23 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to use "Content-Encoding: gzip" to evade WAF security controls and send malicious HTTP POST requests to web servers behind the WAF...

Imperva SecureSphere 环境问题漏洞

Imperva SecureSphere is a suite of high-performance, centralized data security protection and management products from Imperva, USA. The product provides unified auditing, reporting and logging of different SecureSphere products, visualization of security status and real-time monitoring of events...

PT-2022-12366 · Imperva · Imperva Web Application Firewall

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Imperva Web Application Firewall WAF versions prior to 2021-12-23 Description: The issue allows remote unauthenticated attackers to use Content-Encoding: gzip to evade security controls and send malicious HTTP POST requests to web servers...

Log4Shell log4j Remote Code Execution – The COVID of the Internet

The Log4Shell zero day vulnerability is truly one of the most significant security threats of the past decade and its effects will be felt far into 2022 and beyond. Imperva has observed over 102M exploitation attempts across thousands of sites protected by Imperva Cloud Web Application Firewall...

Imperva Snapshot™ Scan: What You Can Find in the Report

Imperva Snapshot is a free AWS RDS security assessment tool. You can use this tool to gain in-depth visibility into your data and get a deep understanding about what data resides in your RDS and where your RDS database security gaps are. Acquiring this intelligence is a key element and critical...

5 Things We’ve Learned About CVE-2021-44228

Over the last week, Imperva Threat Research observed interesting data points related to CVE-2021-44228. Despite new variants being discovered and patched by our team, we wanted to share five interesting things that we’ve learned from analyzing a subset of our overall global network traffic. Attac...

Ransom DDoS Enters its Fourth Wave

Extortionists target industries with most to lose from an outage Cybercriminals continue to target organizations threatening Denial of Service DDoS attacks in exchange for a ransom payment, traditionally demanded in bitcoin BTC. And it seems that no matter how many times these ransom threat cycle...

Continuing to Stay Ahead of CVE-2021-44228: Addressing Your Top Questions

Since it was disclosed on Friday, December 11, I have spoken with many customers about CVE-2021-44228 and the ways Imperva is working to ensure that they are protected. Countless others have contacted us with questions about ways to mitigate the impact from the Log4j vulnerability. In the spirit ...

New research reveals that one third of all log-in attempts on eCommerce sites are malicious

What do humans and bots have in common? A love for visiting online shopping sites: more than half 57% of all attacks on retail websites in 2021 were carried out by bots, compared to 33% for all other industries. It gets worse: a third of all log-in attempts on retail eCommerce websites are accoun...